Scout

The brief was a personal job finder. Find open roles at the companies someone cares about, score how well each one fits, and produce warm outreach that gets a reply.

Three limits came with it. The data stays on the user's own machine, the app drafts but never sends, and nothing needs an account. A tool that holds a resume and a list of target companies is private by nature, so those limits shaped the whole build.

Therum was the whole team. We wrote the design spec and built the matching engine, the radar and the Mac app. Then we built the web version, the brand guidelines, the theme system and the install page. The same roles open in three views: the radar, a grid of cards and a sortable table.

Two more panels sit beside the radar. The Coach answers from the user's own scores, and Activity shows whether the search is getting callbacks. Activity keeps a log of each read, each status change and each draft, and lists the follow ups that are due.

Every release ran through the same checks: automated tests, a security audit, an accessibility review and a design critique. The findings were fixed before the next build.

Scout reads the text companies already publish first: job feeds from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable and Workday, then company sitemaps, then remote job boards. For a company that offers none of those, the Mac app opens its careers page in the user's own Chrome and collects the listings. A site that refuses is listed by name, so an empty result always has a reason.

A role shows only when its title carries every word of one of the user's titles, in any order, or names one of their specialties. Senior, Lead, Staff and Principal count for each other. A role that shares a single word stays hidden as related until the user turns it on.

There is no account. The Mac app keeps data in a folder on the computer with rotating backups, and the web version keeps it in the browser. A backup file moves a profile to another device. The app drafts notes from the user's headline and the role, and the user sends them.

Feedback works the same way. Settings has a Feedback tab that writes a short Markdown note about what happened. The person reads it, then copies it, downloads it or emails it to Therum. Scout sends nothing itself, and the note never holds the resume, people, notes or links.

The radar puts every open role on rings: Strong, Good, Stretch and Far. The closer a dot sits to the center, the better the fit. The top 12 stay bright and the rest are dimmer but still there.

Each role has a fit score out of 100, built in four steps: a quick match on the user's computer, then market fit, resume match and a gap plan that run in the Claude app by copy and paste. The Companies panel lists each company's roles with what every source returned. The People panel saves contacts and drafts a short note.

Every theme restyles the same radar, and the settings screens stay plain in all of them. Match device follows the Mac. The Mac app is a 141 MB download for Apple silicon.

Scout 1.0.0 runs as a Mac app and as a web version, both without an account, and both are a beta. The build passes 14 test suites. The install page passes an automated accessibility check in light and dark, and the security audit findings are closed.

What a beta means here. The matching, the radar, the notes and the install all work today. The fit score past its first step runs in the Claude app by copy and paste until Claude is wired in. A few company sites still refuse to be read, and Scout lists them by name. The Mac app is for Apple silicon only and is not yet signed by Apple.

See how it works on the Scout page, try the web version, or download the Mac app.

Scout drafts and the person sends. It keeps data with the person who owns it, so there is no password to lose and no server holding a resume. It says what each source returned, so a zero is never a mystery.

These are the same habits Therum brings to client systems. The tool does the reading and the sorting. The person keeps the decision.